Pasteur's Rabies Vaccine
July 6, 1885
A nine-year-old Alsatian boy bitten fourteen times by a rabid dog was brought to Pasteur's Paris laboratory. Over ten days Pasteur injected progressively stronger extracts of dried rabbit spinal cord. The boy lived. It was the first successful human vaccination against a viral disease, and the beginning of the Pasteur Institutes.
In context
Also in 1885 (6 other events on record)
- Berlin Conference Partitions Africa · Africa · Politics
- Indian National Congress Founded · South Asia · Politics
- Benz's Motorwagen · Europe · Technology
- Fall of Khartoum · Africa · War
- Riel Rebellion Crushed · North America · War
- Canadian Pacific Completed · North America · Technology
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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